verification-before-completion

verification-before-completion is a skill for Claude Code from softspark/ai-toolkit. It costs 32 tokens per session (2,021 once invoked), scanned A, original, Apache-2.0.

A rule that requires fresh command output before claiming that work is complete, fixed, passing, or verified.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it before reporting completion, committing changes, creating a pull request, or stating that tests or builds pass.
Why use it?
It prevents success claims based only on assumptions, earlier results, or a prompt that says something should exist. The command output must support the claim.

Skill for Claude Code

Written for Claude Code: allowed-tools in frontmatter.

Part of the ai-toolkit plugin — 113 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks shipped together

Good fit Use it before reporting completion, committing changes, creating a pull request, or stating that tests or builds pass.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/softspark/ai-toolkit/verification-before-completion
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add softspark/ai-toolkit --skill verification-before-completion
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/softspark/ai-toolkit

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install ai-toolkit, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 113 skills, 44 agents, 14 hooks.

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Per session 32 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,021 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe.
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00032 $0.02021
Opus 5 $0.00016 $0.01010
Sonnet 5 $0.00006 $0.00404
Haiku 4.5 $0.00003 $0.00202

Measured 3d ago against content hash 5cd24baa02ac, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

verification-before-completion scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 3d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

app/skills/verification-before-completion/SKILL.md · 171 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 171 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Verification Before Completion

The Iron Law

NO COMPLETION CLAIMS WITHOUT FRESH VERIFICATION EVIDENCE

If you haven't run the verification command in this message, you cannot claim it passes.

Claiming work is complete without verification is dishonesty, not efficiency.

The Gate Function

BEFORE claiming any status or expressing satisfaction:

1. IDENTIFY: What command proves this claim?
2. RUN: Execute the FULL command (fresh, complete)
3. READ: Full output, check exit code, count failures
4. VERIFY: Does output confirm the claim?
   - If NO: State actual status with evidence
   - If YES: State claim WITH evidence
5. ONLY THEN: Make the claim

Skip any step = lying, not verifying

When To Apply

ALWAYS before:

  • ANY variation of success/completion claims
  • ANY expression of satisfaction ("Great!", "Perfect!", "Done!")
  • ANY positive statement about work state
  • Committing, PR creation, task completion
  • Moving to next task
  • Delegating to agents

Don't Assume It Exists

A prompt — yours, the user's, or another agent's — naming a file, table, column, endpoint, env var, config key, or dependency is a hint, not a fact. The name existing in text is not the same as the thing existing in the repo.

  • Before you read from, write to, import, or quote any such resource, confirm it: Read the file, ls/grep the path, list the table, check the lockfile. One look beats a confident guess.
  • Never reconstruct a file's contents, a function's body, or an API's signature from its name alone. The name tells you almost nothing about the shape. If you haven't read it, you don't know it.
  • A plausible-sounding path or symbol is the easiest thing in the world to invent. Treat your own fluency here as a warning sign, not as evidence.
  • AUTHORIZED security work (CTF, sanctioned pentest, defensive review) still verifies — probing whether a path/endpoint/parameter actually exists is part of the job, not an exception to it.

Declare Ungrounded as a Real Outcome

Read the full file on GitHub · 171 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 3d ago First seen · 171 lines · 32 tokens per session scan A 5cd24baa02ac

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verification-before-completion is a skill published in the GitHub repository softspark/ai-toolkit (170 stars, last pushed today), licensed Apache-2.0. It adds 32 tokens to every session and 2,021 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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